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Politics around the Cooper household was all-pervading, absorbed by osmosis from infancy, and Judge Cooper inculcated his children with an iron code of honor and a sense of unaffected friendliness for less fortunate neighbors. Often, when he sat down to a heaping dinner, the judge would dispatch one of the boys to a back-alley neighbor with a tray of food from his own table...
During the four years since Britain recognized Red China, the British charge d'affaires in Peking suffered the kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...
...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...
...profit Southern Education Reporting Service. Staffed by working newsmen, the news service, with headquarters in Nashville, will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting Service: "School administrators . . . in each of the 17 states affected will stand to benefit by the experience of [other] school administrators [reported] on a strictly factual, non-partisan basis...
...Negro would be on would win the revolution." Snapped Murphy: "As a minister, can you tell me if the $11,000 you received from the FBI as an informer is an answer to your prayers?" Replied Jones (who works weekdays as elevator operator for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch): "I don't pray for money. I work for that...